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Deck Import

Our Budget Combo Dragon Priest deck list guide for the The Boomsday Project expansion will teach you how to play this Combo Priest list. This Budget Dragon Priest guide includes Mulligans, Gameplay Strategy, Card Substitutions, and Combos/Synergies!

Introduction to Budget Combo Dragon Priest

Combo Dragon Priest got pretty popular in the Kobolds and Catacomb meta. While we had seen Silence versions of Priest that operated under a similar principal, we had not seen the archetype reach the heights it had towards the end of the Year of the Mammoth.

The Boomsday Project Update

The Boomsday Project didn’t have any dragon synergy, but it did come with a new combo tool: Topsy Turvy. As long as the minion you target has at least one attack, Topsy Turvy acts as a third copy of Inner Fire that can’t be removed by Skulking Geist. It also has the added functionality of removing enemy Doomsayers and making Taunt minions with high health easier to trade into.

Budget Combo Dragon Priest Play Strategy

The combo from which this deck gets its name is Inner Fire plus Divine Spirit. Divine Spirit doubles a minion’s health, and Inner Fire changes the minion’s attack to be equal to its health. If you have a minion with, for example, 5 health on the board, playing two copies of Divine Spirit and then targeting it with Inner Fire will increase its stats to 20/20! In a perfect world you would save the combo for when you can use it to destroy the enemy hero in one turn.

Sometimes you just have to throw down your Northshire Cleric and hope that they can’t kill it. You won’t always get a draw, but maintaining some semblance of a board is very important. This is especially relevant against aggressive decks, and ones that play a lot of 1-attack minions will have to alter their strategy or give you a free draw a lot of the time.

Against aggressive decks Duskbreaker is a real all-star. Dealing three damage to the whole board and leaving a 3/3 body behind is ridiculously powerful for four mana.

Your main targets for buffs are going to be your higher health minions. If it’s early against an aggressive or midrange class that doesn’t run cheap removal like Hunter, Paladin, or Rogue you can be more aggressive with Inner Fire. Making a large minion early in the game can be an effective way to get significant advantage if your opponent is unlikely to have an answer for it for a couple turns. Keep in mind how likely it might be that your opponent has a way to Silence your minion before you commit to this.

Future Card Replacements for Budget Combo Dragon Priest

The Dragon package isn’t as strong as it once was when it had Drakonid Operative, so this deck doesn’t really turn into a meta deck. Combo Priest without the Dragon package looks like it will have its place in the meta. The first and most important thing you need for that version of the deck, or even just a better version of this one, is Shadow Visions. This is the card that took Inner Fire Priest from a meme to a real competitor. Shadow Visions fills in the holes of your combo, and can function as additional copies of Divine Spirit.

General Replacements

If you have these then you might want to slot them into the deck, but because this doesn’t evolve into a meta deck I’m not recommending you craft any of them unless you think you’ll use them in another list.

Lyra the Sunshard – A very solid minion to target with the buffs or just start cycling your cards with.

Primordial Drake – Strong late game sweeper that has taunt and is great for receiving buffs from your combo pieces.

Ysera – If you happen to have it then it can fit in the deck, but it’s pretty slow and can weigh down your hand quite a bit if you get it in the early game.

What about removing two Shadow Word: Death for two Spellbreakers? Sometimes i combo a minion, my oponent is in lethal damage with i could directly attavk him, but Void Lord gets in the way. Silence looks pretty strong in this season. What you guys think?

Don’t know if this helps still but I’m using this deck with both shadow visions replacements and instead of two twilight acolyte replacements I only have one and then shadowreaper. This deck laddered me to rank 15 on a 7 game winstreak today! Very happy with it.

Wow. Thanks for the deck!! It is very useful. I change the two bone drakes for 1 cobalt scale and the legendary y lady in white (that was my free legendary) . First, I think that it would not work with twilight drake but not always someone has a lady in white in the early phase of the game so it was a normal game with a situational buff of lady in white that is really amazing with wyrmguard and nightscale matriarch. I wil put “like”

check out my twitch channel to see this deck in action. i made a few adjustments. swapped out 1 tar creeper, 1 shadow word death, silence and 1 acolyte for 2 mindvisions, 1 thought steal and spellstealer. deck is so far working great with these changes at least at low ladder level. you can use the elixir to bypass the 2 less minions by crossing ffingers hoping you get “summon a 1/1 copy” though admittedly this seems to pop up at quite a resonable rate (higher than life steal and deathrattle effect) in fact got 2 “summon 1/1” in one match TWICE. this is a great low budget priest deck for climbing ladder (with these changes). hard to get used to it, but perhaps if you watch my channel you can see for yourself just how awesome it is.

Been playing this deck on a new account and the fact that i managed to beat Jade Druid with it really stands testament to the power of the deck and is a relatively easy to play deck for newer players trying to scrape together some gold for the more expensive meta decks so thankyou Rogue Zebra for sharing it with us. I can’t help but share my experience with the deck in case some fellow new players decided to pick it up and take it for a spin.

At the moment i’m using the budget version of the deck but swapped out the Acolyte of Agony’s with Tar Creeper’s since they have the benefit of both being a 3/5 taunt for 3 mana, a solid target for the Inner Fire combo but most importantly i noticed that players tend to avoid attacking into it and either A) burning removal on it or B) avoiding attacking it entirely unless they have a minion that will survive the 3 damage recoil. This allows you to play them when the enemy doesn’t have a beefy minion on the board and most likely you will have a target for the Inner Fire combo (Power Word Tentacles, Divine Spirit, Divine Spirit, Inner Fire for 44 damage at 10 mana) on the next turn.

I’m looking forward to crafting a Lyra to replace the Defender of Argus and 2 x Priest of the Feast’s which i will probably replace the Night Howler’s with since they feel like a “win more” card and the deck overall struggles to play from behind rather than maintain their winning position in my opinion.

I climbed from rank 20 to rank 15 with the cheap silence version quite easily. Now it feels like this deck runs out of value… Lyra would be so nice 😀 I once had the coin, silence, 2 mana silent minion and the puffing spells. Ended up with turn 3 20/20 😀

I’ve been running a similar deck for about a month now, thanks for the tips.

A strong (but pricey, and about to phase out) addition to this type of deck is a Faceless Shambler. Essentially, any point from turn 7 on, you DS/IF your ??? (Humongous Razorleaf usually being my favorite) then toss down a shambler. Two 16/16’s, one with Taunt, is often enough to end the game outright. Faceless Manipulator is another, less attractive option.

It is a tough line to walk, Carlos. We want minions that stick around while also not diluting the combo aspect of the deck too much. One of the big losses to the budget version is not having Priest of the Feast. That would be my first go-to minion. The hope is that if we have our card draw engine going like we want, then we can get the requisite body for our combo.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for card substitutions, I’d be happy to try them out!